Word: fang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Four Modernizations; the others are industry, agriculture, and defense. Under this great national enterprise, comparable perhaps to the building of the Great Wall or to the U.S. moon program, China expects to have 800,000 scientists and engineers by 1985, more than double the present number. Says Vice Premier Fang Yi, the shrewd bureaucrat who is China's minister of science: "It is not a loss of face to admit that China is backward compared with the West and Japan. But we are determined to close...
...they hope to achieve a goal whose proof has so far eluded Western scientists: unambiguously detecting the gravitational waves forecast by Einstein's general theory of relativity. Why is a nation still struggling to meet basic needs investing precious yuans and talent in such far-out endeavors? Explained Fang Yi: "We consider basic research fundamental to all scientific progress...
...Fang Yi and his colleagues have set difficult goals for a country that still relies heavily on human sweat. In the cities, women sweep the streets with brooms they make out of straw. In the countryside, road crews work with pick and shovel; when steamrollers are available, they are usually fuming, coal-burning monsters. Despite the vaunted Chinese emphasis on the dignity of the masses, produce is still conveyed by pedal-powered carts carrying burdens several times heavier than their human engines...
...concerts, all televised nationally. At the first, there was a row of armchairs with snowy antimacassars and little tables set for tea. The occupants turned out to be top members of the Chinese Establishment: Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p'ing), Foreign Minister Huang Hua, Vice Premier Fang Yi and Mme. Sun Yatsen, who is in her late 80s. During the intermission, Deng held a reception at which he said in effect that he did not know much about music but he knew what he liked: anything that promoted friendship. After the concert, he led his tea party...
...Fang now must ponder China's plan to develop modern technology. This, as expressed by his Academy of Sciences predecessor, Kuo Mojo, will be "a magnumopus" which will "not be written on limited reams of paper but in the universe that knows no bounds...